IPO Stories
Episodes
The Renk IPO - Defense from Private to Public - Susanne Wiegand and Christian Schulz (IPO Stories, Ep. 42)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of IPO Stories, we speak with Susanne Wiegand and Christian Schulz, former CEO and CFO of RENK, one of Europe’s most important defen...
IPO Participation at "Norges", the world's largest SWF, with Emil Framnes, Global Head of Equity Trading & Transition (IPO Stories, Ep. 41)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NBIM manages the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the world's largest SWF - $2 trillion, of which $1.4 trillion is invested in public equities, across...
Sweden's IPO story - Adam Kostyal, President of Nasdaq Stockholm (IPO Stories, ep. 40)
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden has been one of the world's most active IPO markets over the last 10 years, despite a population of only 10 million. The Swedish markets has se...
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC IPOs - Klaus Froehlich, ADNOC Group CIO and Jan-Martin Nufer, Borouge CFO (IPO Stories, ep. 39)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, has been one of the most active IPO sponsors globally, with 6 IPOs of its subsidiaries and JVs, starting wi...
Exosens - Quynh-Boi Demey (IPO Stories, Ep. 38)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Quynh-Boi Demey, the CFO of Exosens, a French industrial tech company that listed on Euronext Paris in June 2024. ...
Academic insights at the private-public interface - Prof. Michelle Lowry (IPO Stories, ep. 37)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Lowry is a Professor of Finance at Drexel University, and has dedicated her research agenda to IPOs, corporate governance and retail investin...
Good governance for long-term success - Caroline Escott, Railpen (IPO Stories, Ep. 36)
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of IPO Stories, we are thrilled to welcome Caroline Escott, Head of Investment Stewardship and Co-Head of Sustainable Ownership at Rai...
Academic IPO insights - Prof. Jay Ritter (IPO Stories, Ep. 35)
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Ritter is a Professor of Finance at the University of Florida's Warrington School of Business. He has become known as «Mr IPO» for his substanti...
Apollo's IPO Playbook - Michael Shapiro (IPO Stories, Ep. 34)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we sit down with Michael Shapiro, Apollo's co-head of Capital Markets and Syndicate, to unpack what it really takes to engineer a succ...
Passive investors and IPOs - Prof. Marco Sammon (IPO Stories, Ep. 33)
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Sammon is an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He and his co-authors have researched on how indexing interacts...
The Raspberry Pi IPO with Eben Upton (CEO) and Aditi Venkatram (Jefferies) (IPO Stories, Ep. 32)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we sit down with Eben Upton, CEO and Founder of Raspberry Pi - a UK-based technology company known for its single-board computers, ini...
Strategic Investor Relations at AD Ports - Marc Hammoud (IPO Stories, Ep. 31)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
 In this episode, we sit down with Marc Hammoud, VP of Investor Relations at ADPorts Group, to discuss the pivotal role investor relations plays in ...
Norconsult - Dag Fladby (IPO Stories, ep. 30)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we tell the story of the IPO of Norconsult with CFO Dag Fladby. Norconsult is a Norwegian engineering architecture & urban plannin...
The Syensqo spin-off from Solvay - Ilham Kadri (IPO Stories, Ep. 29)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Ilham Kadri, the CEO of Syensqo, a global speciality chemicals company listed in Brussels. In 2023, Ilham led the spi...
Untangling IPO dynamics with Fidelity's Anne Ross (IPO Stories, Ep. 28)
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we welcome Anne Ross, EMEA Equity Syndicate Manager at Fidelity Management and Research, our first guest from the buy-side. With her b...
Norva24 - Henrik Damgaard (IPO Stories, Ep. 27)
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Norva24 is a leader in underground infrastructure maintenance services in Northern Europe – that is the maintenance of all the infrastructure relate...
Taaleem - Alan Williamson (IPO Stories, Ep. 26)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore the journey of Taaleem, a leading operator of international private schools in the UAE, and its path to becoming one of th...
Aker BioMarine - Matts Johansen (IPO Stories, Ep. 25)
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matts Johansen is the CEO of Aker BioMarine, the global leader in krill fishing and production of krill-based products, such as omega 3 supplements an...
Gas shipping at Flex LNG and Avance Gas - Øystein Kalleklev (IPO Stories, Ep. 24)
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Øystein Kalleklev is the CEO of not one, but 2 listed companies: Flex LNG and Avance Gas, two leading shipping companies in Liquefied Natural Gas (LN...
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul IPO(s) - Nayef Al-Athel (IPO Stories, Ep. 23)
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saudi Arabia has evolved from having 4 IPOs per year 10 years ago, to 40 IPOs per year over the last few years. Nayef Al Athel has been in the middle ...
The IPOs of iZettle and Readly - Maria Hedengren (IPO Stories, Ep. 22)
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not all IPO processes end up with an IPO. The path is filled with twists and turns, in some cases cancellations, postponements, or even a strategic sa...
The history of direct listings - Dakin Campbell (IPO Stories, Ep. 21)
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Spotify was the first company to do a direct listing instead of a regular IPO process – foregoing the usual bookbuilding process in favor o...
The US IPO of Criteo - Edouard Lassalle (IPO Stories, Ep. 20)
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Criteo, a French adtech company, listed on Nasdaq in 2013. Edouard Lassalle joined in 2012 to prepare the company for the IPO, and later served as hea...
Middle Eastern IPOs - Wassim Al Khatib (IPO Stories, Ep. 19)
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Middle Eastern equity capital markets have captured investors' attention the last 2 years, as the only truly active IPO market in the world throughout...
Equity indices and IPOs - Mark Makepeace (IPO Stories, Ep. 18)
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a company becomes listed, index inclusion is a big deal. Beyond the stamp of approval, it brings in new passive investors, more liquidity, and ul...
The direct listing of Wise - Matt Briers (IPO Stories, Ep. 17)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Briers has been the CFO of Wise since 2015. In 2021, Matt led the company to a direct listing on the London Stock Exchange, the first major direc...
The role of equity research in an IPO - Erik Salz (IPO Stories, Ep. 16)
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Salz has more than 15 years experience in equity research, most recently as an equity analyst at JP Morgan, where he particularly focused on IPO ...
Investor Relations during and after the IPO - Julia Stoetzel (IPO Stories, Ep. 15)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Stoetzel is the founder of Junicorn, an Investor Relations consultancy based in Germany, and host of the podcast Street Tweets. We first met Jul...
European IPOs on Euronext - Stephane Boujnah (IPO Stories, Ep. 14)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stéphane Boujnah is the CEO of Euronext, the largest European stock exchange, managing the bourses of Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Oslo, Pari...
Industrie De Nora - Paolo Dellachà (IPO Stories, Ep. 12)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paolo Dellachà is the CEO of Industrie De Nora, an Italian industrial company with global presence. It is the world’s leading supplier of electrode...
Financing the energy transition at EDPR - Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade (IPO Stories, Ep. 11)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EDP is a Portuguese utility with a global footprint. In 2008, EDP listed its subsidiary EDP Renewables, one of the world's leading renewable energy de...
DeliveryHero - Emmanuel Thomassin (IPO Stories, Ep. 10)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emmanuel Thomassin is the CFO of Delivey Hero, one of the world's leading online food delivery platforms. He has been the CFO since 2014 and led the c...
What no one tells you about your IPO - Laurence Borde (IPO Stories, Ep. 9)
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laurence Borde is the founder of Mediatree, an agency specializing in accompanying companies in the preparation and implementation of the IPO roadshow...
Private Equity IPOs at EQT - Magnus Tornling (IPO Stories, Ep. 8)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EQT, based in Sweden, is one of the world’s largest private equity firms, and an active IPO sponsor, particularly in Europe - where they have listed...
Privatizing Française des Jeux - Claire Vernet-Garnier (IPO Stories, Ep. 7)
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Française des Jeux, coming out of state ownership, was one of the largest and most successful IPOs over the last 5 years, raising $2bn for the French...
Europe’s listing miasma - Craig Coben (IPO Stories, Ep. 6)
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is there so little innovation in the IPO process? How has the investor landscape changed over the last decades, and how can companies get institut...
ESG in IPOs - Marie Freier (IPO Stories, Ep. 5)
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ESG investing is becoming increasingly important, both in terms of fund flows and integration in investment decisions. The disclosure requirements for...
Private Equity IPOs at KKR - Eric Han (IPO Stories, Ep. 4)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
KKR is one of the world’s largest private equity firms, and also one of the most active private equity sponsors of IPOs, with 3-4 IPOs per year glob...
Family-owned company IPOs - Annika Sigfrid (IPO Stories, Ep. 3)
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annika Sigfrid has been at the center of more IPOs than most of us will ever be. She has 25 years' experience in Equity Capital Markets transactions. ...
OVHCloud - Yann Leca (IPO Stories, Ep. 2)
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yann Leca was the CFO of OVHCloud, a cloud computing company, from 2019 to 2022 and led the company to its IPO in October 2021 - one of the largest an...
Exclusive Networks - Jesper Trolle (IPO Stories, Ep. 1)
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss the IPO of Exclusive Networks, a global distributor of cybersecurity solutions, with Jesper Trolle, its CEO since Septembe...